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iPod bleg
I am soliciting song suggestions to put on my iPod; all genres are welcome. There is no need to suggest famous songs, such as the classics of classic rock. Most pieces of classical music are too long for how I use the medium. Comments, of course, are open.
Posted by Tyler Cowen on October 18, 2005 at 07:29 PM in Music | Permalink
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Comments
If I understand this right, is this an excuse for every reader to list his or her favorite songs?
Posted by: Paul N at Oct 18, 2005 8:11:44 PM
Isreal kamamawiwo'ole - Somewhere over the rainbow
It puts me in a very peaceful state of mind.
Posted by: eric at Oct 18, 2005 8:11:50 PM
You should check out the Drive-By Truckers. The New Yorker and Wall St. Journal have positively reviewed them in the past. Their best album is called Southern Rock Opera, a double album about the south and Lynyrd Skynyrd. I also highly recommend their live work, which is legally available on bit torrent sites.
Posted by: Jonathan Hall at Oct 18, 2005 8:32:21 PM
Nancarrow's Piano Studies.
Posted by: SR at Oct 18, 2005 8:35:48 PM
1. Keep it loose, keep it tight - Amos Lee
2. Hands of Time - Groove Armada
3. If I Laugh - Cat Stevens
4. Dr. Zhivago's Train - Nicolai Dunger
5. Buttercup - Brad
6. Plowed - Sponge
All are smooth like silk, except for the last one. Plowed is great for getting pumped up.
Posted by: Andy at Oct 18, 2005 8:57:46 PM
Anything by Powderfinger, especially 'Odyssey Number 5'.
The closest American comparison I could give is they're similar to Dave Matthews Band, but better of course :-)
Posted by: Fabian at Oct 18, 2005 9:22:56 PM
Everyone I tell about the Kings of Convenience seems to really enjoy their music. I especially recommend the latest album--Riot on an Empty Street.
Posted by: Alex at Oct 18, 2005 9:25:38 PM
Sigur Ros They are an Icelandic Band that sounds like Iceland, with almost a classical sound. get their new album and if you don't like it I will gladly buy it off of you
Posted by: Jason at Oct 18, 2005 9:28:40 PM
Rockfour. An Israeli band that sings in English and has a bit of a Beatles sound to them.
Posted by: Jason at Oct 18, 2005 9:32:09 PM
I recommend the mp3 of "monopsony in motion" by John DiNardo (http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jdinardo/MnM.mp3). whether one agrees with Card/Krueger/Manning or not, it's a pretty darn funny.
Lyrics can be found on DiNardo's website (http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jdinardo/index2.html), where there are also some other entertaining economics-themed songs.
Alternatively, I'll second the Sigur Ros recommendation. They sometimes sound like dying whales, but in a relaxing way.
Posted by: noto at Oct 18, 2005 9:33:35 PM
Sufjan Stevens - "Come On! Feel The Illinoise!"
Sigur Ros - "Gong"
Broken Social Scene - "7/4 (Shoreline)"
Brian Eno - "An Ending (Ascent)"
Four Tet - "Hands"
Manitoba - "Kid You'll Move Mountains"
Tom Waits - "Big In Japan"
There, that's enough variety that I'm sure there'll be something you like. :)
Posted by: Matt McIntosh at Oct 18, 2005 9:39:30 PM
I choose stuff that is in my top 50 played on my iTunes, available on the iTunes store, and I think that you probably have never heard the song before.
The top picks come first.
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In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel
The Professor Burns Vegas - Cinemechanica
I Am Your Idea - We Versus the Shark
Mrs. Juliette Low - Phosphorescent
Everything Disappears When You Come Around - Of Montreal
Blackout Curtain - Now It's Overhead
Summer Hymns - Pete Rose Affinity
The Mechaniks Of It - Heros Severum
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Two bands that I could not find on the store that I recommend are Hope For A Golden Summer and Maserati.
Posted by: goodness_of_fit at Oct 18, 2005 9:42:44 PM
Try out Nervous Cabaret. There are some MP3s on their site - http://www.nervouscabaret.com/
Posted by: Jamie at Oct 18, 2005 9:47:42 PM
I could never pick just a few songs, and I hesitate to post my top 200 or top 500 list.
However, I do think the following site is really interesting (it compiles songs' popularity based on number of times they were included in mix CDs):
http://mfooz.com/aotm2004stats/renditions.html
http://mfooz.com/aotm2003stats/renditions.html
For the most part, all the top songs are really good (an effect sort of like The Wisdom of Crowds I guess).
Posted by: Paul N at Oct 18, 2005 9:58:30 PM
It's funny how, using these comments you could, very unrealiably I'm sure, estimate what the demographic for MR is. I'd say, with Sufjan, Neutral Milk Hotel, Four Tet, Kings of Convenience, MR readers are 20-something hipsters. I'm surprised.
I'd suggest Shostakovich's Jazz Suites, they're short, not very classical and are beautiful in the way that few Russian things are.
Here's the itunes store link - http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=36787806&s=143441
This is really out there, but perhaps not as much as Four Tet or Neutral Milk Hotel; and really is much better music; Richard D. James. I would recommend his Analord series, but those are only available on vinyl. Instead, a good, though some what round about way, to introduce yourself to his music is through it's performance by Alarm Will Sound (Reich/Eno/Glass type of outfit)
here's the itunes store link - http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?s=143441&playlistId=65668080
Perhaps that will inspire you to listen to more.
Posted by: Chevalier at Oct 18, 2005 10:00:42 PM
MC Solaar - French rap/acid jazz artist - friends who usually don't listen to either genre nor know French love him. Friends that listen to rap or acid jazz (but, like myself, don't speak French) worship him. And my 3 francophone friends who I've listened to MC Solaar with seem to salivate over the depth of lyrics.
La Ley - a nice-sounding Chilean rock group - should be a nice Spanish lesson at the same time.
Posted by: Sean at Oct 18, 2005 10:00:50 PM
As Chevalier pointed out about demographic stuff, I will suggest some Brazilian songs (many genre, but no bossa nova):
* Los Hermanos - (vey good band, a few suggestions: Tá bom; Um par; Fez-se mar)
* Timbalada - I miss her
* Skank - Vou deixar
* Beth Carvalho - Volta por cima
* Toquinho - Aquarela
* Banda Eva (or Ivete Sangalo) - Eva
* Roupa Nova - Dona
* Roberto Carlos - Além do Horizonte
More songs on demand! Just e-mail me with saying which ones above did you like.
Posted by: Daniel at Oct 18, 2005 10:36:36 PM
If you like jazz / fusion bass, I would suggest just about any song from Stanley Clarke's album School Days.
Posted by: Robert Prather at Oct 18, 2005 10:41:49 PM
Anything and everything by Johann Sebastian Bach. But especially check out Glenn Gould's 1959 rendition of the Goldberg Variations (assuming you haven't already) and be sure to get the Empire Brass Ensemble's "A Bach Festival"--which includes a glorious rendition of Cantata 146.
Posted by: Pejman Yousefzadeh at Oct 18, 2005 10:56:36 PM
I saw the anti-bleg against classical music too late. Apologies. Of course, Bach's music is baroque and not classical so perhaps I can still sneak it in under the radar . . .
Posted by: Pejman Yousefzadeh at Oct 18, 2005 11:00:04 PM
"Shout'n on the Hills of Glory" - Ralph Stanley and Friends, I swear it puts me in the spirit.
"Where does the Time Go" - Nina Simone, there's some talking at the beginning, but the song at the end is worth it, haunting.
Posted by: ElamBend at Oct 18, 2005 11:03:18 PM
I've enjoyed Jan Johansson's Folkvisor* and Den korta fristen**. Not that I know what the song titles are by any stretch of the imagination…
* http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/johansson1
** http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/johansson2
Posted by: Nathan Sharfi at Oct 18, 2005 11:06:16 PM
Hey.. some of us are 30-something hipsters!
My two cents--
The Coral- The Invisible Invasion
The Editors- The Back Room
Explosions in the Sky- any album
Great Lake Swimmers- Bodies and Minds
John Vanderslice- Pixel Revolt
Lake Trout- Not Them, You
Minotaur Shock- Maritime
And, I second the mentions of Drive By Truckers, Sigur Ros, Neutral Milk Hotel and Four Tet
Posted by: Justin at Oct 18, 2005 11:08:39 PM
La Carcel de Cananea - Chavela Vargas
Girl from Ipanema - Astrud Gilberto
I'm Hip - Blossom Dearie
Posted by: Joshua Macy at Oct 18, 2005 11:11:24 PM
"Life in Mono" by Mono, album "Formica Blues"
"Distantly in Love" by Jimmy Buffett, album "One Particular Harbor"
"Return of the Grievous Angel" by Gram Parson (and redone wonderfully by Emmylou Harris on "Last Date")
"The Kind of Love You Never Get Over" by Christine Lavin, album "Attainable Love"
"Take Whatever I Can Get" by Sara Hickman, album "Two Kinds of Laughter"
"Die Moldau" by Bedrich Smetana, from tone poem "Ma Vlast"
Posted by: t.a. at Oct 18, 2005 11:13:16 PM
